HISTORY / EVIDENCE KEY
How to read the archive
Each history witness points to evidence while keeping uncertainty, source type, and image-rights boundaries visible. The archive is a recoverable record in progress, not a claim that every part of the shop's history is complete.
THE METHOD
Four labels, four different jobs
- Witness
- One approved record that points to a source. A witness can establish a bounded observation without completing the whole history.
- Confidence
- The record's existing evidence-language. It is not a numeric score, authenticity grade, price signal, or guarantee.
- Source class
- The kind or origin of the source. It helps a reader understand context; it does not rank or endorse the source.
- Asset status
- The capture and rights boundary for related media. It remains separate from what the cited text or artifact can establish.
CURRENT PUBLIC RECORD
Vocabulary in use
9 witness records currently use the labels below. A frequency is only a count of records using a phrase; it is not evidence weight.
Confidence language
- artifact verified; exact lineage date provisional1 witness record
- first-party surviving archive1 witness record
- surviving site content1 witness record
- verified contemporary media reference1 witness record
- verified dated photograph1 witness record
- verified independent account2 witness records
- verified publication index1 witness record
- verified source1 witness record
Source classes
- community report2 witness records
- digitized publication1 witness record
- first party1 witness record
- first-party/current-domain1 witness record
- independent collector / reference site1 witness record
- podcast / media1 witness record
- publication1 witness record
- third-party photograph1 witness record